I can't help but disapprove of anyone who skates Senior can also skate JGP. I know the Rule. No need to repeat it again. It's just a thing with me that if a skater gets a taste of the senior level, that is his level. All those other contestants in JGPs haven't got a chance, unless one is super special which I doubt.

I will not worry about who wins but I will be interested in watching those not eligible for Seniors.

Yeah, that would interest me too. Who goes for Russia? Are any of those babies among the Russian "senior ladies" JGP eligible this season?

I think Isabel Drescher will do JGP again, Hecken got two Senior assignments and Drescher none.

Reitmayerova didn't get any GP assignments as far as I know; so she'll be back.

Out of the Russian babies who did Senior nationals, only Polina Shelepen is eligible (6th in Seniors, 4th in Juniors). I've seen Adelina Sotnikova's birthday given as either January 11 (but I think this is an error by IceNetwork), July 11 or July 1st (the date given by the Russian fed, which would make her too young by one day!). Tuktamysheva's birthday is December 17, 1996, so she's also too young.

Note that Polina Shelepen is listed with the National team (Leonova, DomShabs, K/S, etc), so I'm assuming that barring injury she'll have two assignments. Ozerova/Enbert are listed on the reserve team.

Newbies to watch out will possibly be (All IMHO, so take it as you will) Polina Agafonova in ladies, Ilynikh/Katsalapov in dance and maybe Morozova/Golubev in pairs.

Sheremetieva/Kuznetsov (5th at Junior Worlds in pairs) and Novik/Medovikov (7th at JGP Sheffield) split. Tatiana Novik and Mikhail Kuznetsov are skating together; Sheremetieva also has a new partner. Both teams are eligible for the JGP.

For what it's worth, here's the "B" junior team, but on the whole they tend to be younger, less experienced and not as good results.

Reposting from FSU... Here are the JGP-eligible skaters/teams as compiled from the 2008-09 ISU Season Best score lists. All scores are Junior unless otherwise indicated. (I've included some placements from Nationals, JGP Final, Europeans, 4Continents, Junior Worlds and Worlds.) The skaters that have received initial JGP assignments are noted below.

[Note: The fact that Daisuke MURAKAMI JPN (J3, S5) was #53 on the SB scores list with 168.06 55 and Akio SASAKI JPN (J5) was #55 with 167.57 and both did not receive an initial JGP assignment seems to indicate that they may compete as seniors internationally this fall.]

Notes: As oleada posted above, Ekaterina SHEREMETIEVA / Mikhail KUZNETSOV (they were #29 on the SB Pairs list with 134.80) have split and both have JGP-eligible new pair partners. Sheremetieva's new partner is reportedly Egor Tchudin and Kuznetsov's new partner is Tatiana Novik (so that means Tatiana NOVIK / Konstantin MEDOVIKOV have also split - they were #41 on the SB list with 125.74).